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Settled, side by side

Pelican Gray

Benjamin Moore · 1612

Jacket

Portola Paints · Roman Clay

58.58
LRV
#C6CBCC
Hex
#3A3634
198 · 203 · 204
RGB
58 · 54 · 52
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Pelican Gray is cool; Jacket is warm.
Silvery grey with a blue lean; the color of a wet slate roof
Undertone
Charcoal-brown; a black softened by clay
Gray
Family
Gray
Classics Color Collection
Collection
Roman Clay

In real rooms

Every room, each color

The difference

Read from the numbers

Pelican Gray leans cool where Jacket reads warm. Both belong to the gray family.

How they read

In their own words

Pelican Gray is a light, silvery grey with a clear blue lean — cooler than the greiges that dominated the last decade, and all the better for it. At LRV 59 it is light enough for a small room and grey enough to feel deliberate. It is the grey of a slate roof after rain.

Jacket is a Portola Roman Clay in a deep charcoal-brown — a black with the hardness taken out. Because Roman Clay is troweled on, the surface is never uniform: it shifts between soot and warm ash across a wall, with a soft, suede-like depth that no flat paint can match.

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